Mari YAMAZAKI

Anime Spotlight - Blood Lad
Announced only hours ago by Viz Media, here's an early look at the teen vampire show Blood Lad! 2013-07-06

Anime Spotlight - Sunday Without God
When God abandons the world, certain things stop happening. Like dying, for example. 2013-07-06

Anime Expo 2013
It's time once again for Anime Expo! We'll be posting panel reports all weekend long.
Available Now: Kodansha Comics - A1 Pictures - Crunchyroll - AnimeSols - Sunrise - Dark Horse - Neon Alley - SimulTV - Studio Trigger - Right Stuf - GOH: Megumi Han - GOH: Nobuhiro Kikuchi - NISA Panel - Digital Manga - Aniplex - Sentai Filmworks - Funimation Online - Shonen Jump - Vertical Inc and Day 2 Photos. 2013-07-04

Anime Spotlight - WATAMOTE
It's another impossibly long name, but this time the girl it's describing is not exactly "cute..." 2013-07-04

The Summer 2013 Anime Preview Guide
The Summer 2013 Anime Preview Guide Has Begun! Check back daily for previews of all the season's new shows.
Available Now: Monogatari Series Second Season - Genshiken Second Season - il sole penetra le illusioni ~ Day Break Illusion - Love Lab - Rozen Maiden Zurückspulen - Servant x Service - Chronicles of the Going Home Club - Tamayura: More Aggressive - Free! - Gifu Dodo!! - Dog and Scissors 2013-07-03

ANN 15th Anniversary - Win A Trip to Japan!
ANN is celebrating its 15th anniversary, and we want to give someone the chance to win a trip to Japan! 2013-07-03

ANNCast Live from Anime Expo 2013
Live from Anime Expo 2013, it's ANNCast! With special guests Mike Toole, Lynzee Lamb and Hope Chapman! And it's 90 minutes long! Hooray! 2013-07-06

Kill Me Baby DVD
An idiot, an assassin, and a supposed ninja all get into random antics at and away from their high school in this gag comedy series. Some jokes get repetitive or never hit the mark, but mostly it is a rather funny diversion.

Momo: The Girl God of Death DVD
A cute shinigami girl helps youths who have recently lost loved ones in this 2006 series. Though its six stories clearly strive for substance, they more commonly go down like cotton candy: sweet enough and tasty enough but definitely not filling.

Devil is a Part-Timer! Episodes 1-13 Streaming
Smart and finely balanced; calculated yet seemingly effortless; funny and self-deprecating and secretly substantial. In short: great, guilt-free fun.

Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit GN 2
If you are a completeist or would have played every single storyline out in the original game, My Fanatic Rabbit is likely already on your to-read list. Otherwise your enjoyment of this will depend on how much you like Elliot as a character.

Arata: The Legend GN 14
Volume fourteen could reasonably be called a turning point book in the series. While it doesn't cement what Hinohara's future course of action will be, it does give us more information about past, present, and future, and seems to have galvanized the characters to make more direct moves.

Neon Genesis Evangelion [Omnibus] GN 3
In this volume, Evangelion plunges further into darkness (in a good way), proving why it remains one of the most talked-about series of all time.

Red Data Girl
A timid, sheltered girl discovers that she's the host for a powerful supernatural entity in a dark, moody drama laden with Eastern mysticism. Though still good, the series falls short of its great potential due to some late missteps.

Space Brothers Episodes 39-51 Streaming
The first of these arcs is a mission-gone-wrong adventure that distinguishes itself with winding tension, solid psychology, and fine attention to detail; the second, however, falls right back into the show's stolidly entertaining astronauts-in-training rut.

Majestic Prince Episodes 1 - 6 Streaming
Overall it is easy to see that Majestic Prince is trying. At this point whether or not it succeeds is up to the tastes of the individual viewer, but with the vague but troubling sensation that things could go wrong at any moment, there is enough to keep us watching.

Valvrave the Liberator episodes 1-6
While this original effort by Sunrise does borrow heavily from other mecha and general sci fi series, it is at times spectacularly unpredictable and enthusiastically ridiculous. Even veteran mecha fans should find at least a few weird, new twists here.

Spice & Wolf GN 4
Lawrence meets a pretty shepherdess and gets himself in a financial jam as this adaptation of the original novels continues. Though it has few major events, the ongoing byplay between the leads keeps the story entertaining.